Arrow
- Museum number:
- 2-6575
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020006575
- Alternate number:
- x-2768 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.167
- Description:
- Bird arrow. Three curved and serrated antler heads lashed to wooden shaft with sinew, feathers on proximal end; shaft painted red. Native names: pitegcaun, qerrutviit, yaqulegcuun.
- Donor:
- Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
- Collection place:
- St. Michael, St. Michael Island, Nome Borough
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Alaska; St. Michael
- Culture or time period:
- Alaskan Eskimo
- Collector:
- Rudolph Neumann
- Collection date:
- unknown
- Materials:
- Bone (material) (antler), Feather (material), Paint (coating) (red), and Sinew (material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Arrows (projectiles)
- Function:
- 1.1 Hunting and Fishing
- Accession date:
- 1904
- Context of use:
- Bird arrow.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- arrow head— length 17.5 centimeters, whole arrow— length 79 centimeters, shaft— length 61 centimeters, arrow head— height 0.7 centimeters, shaft— diameter 1 centimeters, and arrow head— width 0.6 centimeters
- Legacy documentation:
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